Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-01

sentiment of ex-Confederates. That our
readers may understand just how far the
rebel spirit has died we quote the follow
ing extracts from the speech of Gen. Jack
son, late minister of the present admin
istration to Mexico, at the Macon eelebra-
ton. Said Mr.. Jackson:
State sovereignty is not dead Georgia is a
sovereign still, and she calls upon her people
to glory with her to-day. Her glory is in
her history her history Is the memory of her
dead, and this day is conseerated 10 her con-
federate dead. They were guilty of no
treason to her"
After charging the treason TO the North
ern States, Gen jackson continues:
And because, after decades of endurance as
patient as il was delucive, the sovereign par
Ties of the south declined to accept their
revolutionary compact-breaking, the SOW
origins of the north with numbers overwhelm-
ing and material unboanded, made aggressive
war upon them to force them to accept it.
Sable record this, yet forever fixed in the
armament of truth. Falsehood cannot nnfix
it. As well attempt standing upon stool to
pluck fixed star from heaven
Again:
The world has been told that the
people of the south made war to perpetuate
African slavery. This is false. They did
not create that institution nor do they wish 10
restore it. Not that shame can attach to its
memory. False indeed must be the historic
muse 10 her elearest duty, if all things being
considered, the parties, the surroundings, the
results, she fails to hand it down to future
times as the gentest and by far the most
civlizing and Illuminating relationship ever
borne by labor To capital.
The sun of modern compared with ancient
civilization, home rule" eontrasted with
Roman civilization. il rose in the west and
now mounts the western armament red with
the blood of confederate heroes, moist with
tears of confederate widows and orphans.
Eastward shall il continue to roll carrying
with it the blessed light of the Christian
civilization all around the globe. And so
surely as il moves it shall bring the day of a
final triumph to be decreed by the mind and
conscience of man 10 time-honored truth. In
that triumphant procession Abraham Lincoln
shall not move as the rightful president but
Jefferson Davis, the so-called traitor-leader OF
a so-called lost cause. In that silent but ma
jestic march will move 1.-THE Confederate
States of America" each wearing her truth
studded crown of sovereignty untarnished--
Georgia bearing in her proud arms her Har-
low, her Cobb, her Walker, her blood-stained
heroes who fell with sense of the coming
glory uneclipsed in their souls. II this be the
coming of the new south---a name which DC
cupies the air at times---then we confederate
veterans cry New south, all hail ! Do We
not, my brothers? All hail, renovated unior
of sovereign states, as planned by the common
fathers, who worked more wisely than they
knew. All hail grand American republic OF
wheels within wheel. respondent lllumina
tor of the modern world. We, too, confeder
ates, can echo from our hearts and re-echt
from our heart of hearts the patriot cry OF
Webster the great Thanks be TO God tina
|, |, too, am American citizen But i
the so-called new south be base surrender
of the old, false confesson--meanly false
of shame in our past, shame in our slres
shame in our dead which none but the sillies
fool can honestly feel then with all the power
given to us by God of truth we cry "Avaunt
false south Avaunt, rotten trunk upon
cursed root, Thy fruit must turn to ashes OF
the lips"
Is it strange that the great party which
supported the constitution and the integ-
ment of the offices of thepublic service to
officials who entertain such sentiments
Is it strange the brave defenders of the
Federal government should Indignantly
resent the proposed return of the rebe
flags? There is just cause for both the
resentment of the republican party and
the Indignation of the veterans of the
army. The war may have been taught
the South conquered but there are enough
chips of the old block left, which collected
together and ignited, will produce quite ;
stable conilagration.